Edutopia - Comments for Teachers, Like Students, Learn by Doing: Project Learning at Envision Schoolshttps://www.edutopia.org/crss/node/443073
enApplying learning to current teaching situationshttps://www.edutopia.org/comment/68481#comment-68481
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>I specifically like that the power of performance is what motivates people to learn. Whether it is student or teacher doing the learning, more active approaches in the field of education will produce a more interested and driven crowd. Taking in passive learning will only create passive methods of using what is learned. Getting students involved in the classroom setting will send them into the active modes of distributing what they have learned when it is time for real world application. We all would do very well to pay attention when research yields these results, moreover, we would do even better to apply the lesson.</p>
</div>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:48:43 +0000Shelleycomment 68481 at https://www.edutopia.orghands on experiencehttps://www.edutopia.org/comment/67867#comment-67867
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>I am a fine arts teacher in grades preK-5. I have taught school for 23 years in Athens, Georgia. My students are the best advocates of this approach to learning. If I present the material in any other way I am met with cries of "...BUT WHEN ARE WE GOING TO DO ART!!!!" Hands on learning is the best way that I learn too. This is particularly true when it comes to technology and mathematics. However, all through my schooling and into my master's work I have found that to be the case. I would like to share with you an excerpt from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities(2000):</p>
<p> -Research in multiple intelligences, the brain, and how the emotions strongly effect learning, supports hands-on, experiential learning through the fine arts.</p>
</div>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:11:45 +0000Karin Blankenshipcomment 67867 at https://www.edutopia.orgI totally agree. I have beenhttps://www.edutopia.org/comment/67245#comment-67245
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>I totally agree. I have been teaching for 6 years now and have taken enough Professional development in time to have gotten a doctorate. I'm still getting less money than some one with a MA in anything that comes to work as a teacher in my county. Our county hires someone with, for example, a law degree, gotten in 7 years, and can not pass the bar exam puts them in the classroom and pays them doctoral pay. To top this all off they can not teach a lick. Many of our fellow teachers have an MA or a PhD. Why not get with the state universities and organize classes to be held at local schools at a time convenient for the teachers and give them college credit. I would go, especially if I didn't have to pay for it. I would go if it were reasonable. I, however am getting tired of being required to take courses far from my school and home on my own time and only getting enough $ to pay for gas, and getting that a month or two later.<br />
I also believe teachers hired without teaching certification by way of a real teaching degree should not get as much money as someone who has spent ten's of thousands of dollars to become a well trained knowledgeable teacher. I can't get the job of lawyer because I have a degree in teaching. Not eve if I am highly qualified in government and American history.</p>
</div>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:49:17 +0000Dottiecomment 67245 at https://www.edutopia.orghands on experiencehttps://www.edutopia.org/comment/66499#comment-66499
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>I think it is a great way for students and teachers to become better learners. In my own experiences I know that for me to learn quicker and easier is by doing so hands on. I teach kindergarten, and for them to listen constantly to a teacher talking is like talking to yourself. They don't want to sit through a long list of directions. If they can see what they are doing and provide the directions while they are interacting it is easier for them to learn. There are many hands on activities for the youngest to even the oldest of learners. It is our job as teachers though to make sure that we keep up on these new activities and ideas.</p>
</div>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:27:59 +0000Lenee Bowlescomment 66499 at https://www.edutopia.orghands on experiencehttps://www.edutopia.org/comment/66498#comment-66498
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>I think it is a great way for students and teachers to become better learners. In my own experiences I know that for me to learn quicker and easier is by doing so hands on. I teach kindergarten, and for them to listen constantly to a teacher talking is like talking to yourself. They don't want to sit through a long list of directions. If they can see what they are doing and provide the directions while they are interacting it is easier for them to learn. There are many hands on activities for the youngest to even the oldest of learners. It is our job as teachers though to make sure that we keep up on these new activities and ideas.</p>
</div>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:26:09 +0000Lenee Bowlescomment 66498 at https://www.edutopia.orgLife Long Learnershttps://www.edutopia.org/comment/66159#comment-66159
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>Teachers are live long learners. Many teachers enjoy hands on activities. The generation of kids today are very hands on. We must make learning fun. We, the teachers, are competing with computers, video games, DVDs, IPODS, etc. Children and adults must do to make the learning real.</p>
</div>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:50:51 +0000Decynthia Arnoldcomment 66159 at https://www.edutopia.orgTeacher training along with higher educationhttps://www.edutopia.org/comment/65810#comment-65810
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>It always amazes me how much professional development we do, but dont seem to get credit for. I have attended so many trainings that our disrict provides. Usually we have four trainings a month after school gets out, and then we have our morning meetings and staff development activities in our buildings as well. Our district and state expect us to invest our time, which we do for ourselves and our students, yet they dont truly support our goals. For example, a unexperienced teacher comes into our district with a MA degree, and recieves more pay than a teacher who has six years experience with a BA. Well, that 6 year teacher obviously has more experience and district training, and most likely has a goal to get a MA degree, but there is no funding for that goal. Why doesn't the district get more creative with their teacher investments? Maybe hire, training hands on around teacher goals and professional development, then allowing budgets or incentives to reward that teacher. Would itbe too smart and creative for a SCHOOL district to pair up with a UNIVERSITY in the state and government, and provide higher education for teachers? To me, that is a great investment and incentive for higher learning. Teachers gain a higher degree, besides just training. Teachers also gain more knowledge while recieving on the job training and application. The district and state is also saying that they are committed to supporting us, instead of telling us that we need to raise scores. When they truly invest in our educational costs and spending, they are becoming more apart of the whole picture process. As educators, we are expected to invest in everyone first, and then in ourselves. Then we are expected to pay for everything ourselves as well. When a teacher has worked in the field, he/she should be able to apply their goals and trainings towards a higher education degree, even in a building or cohort model. Now that is thinking in a new way. Do you know of any districts in and states that do this already? If so, please let me know and pass on the information so I can get it started here:)</p>
</div>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:10:44 +0000Angelacomment 65810 at https://www.edutopia.orgActive Educators!https://www.edutopia.org/comment/65694#comment-65694
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>I live in Kentucky and we have what is called "Thoughtful Classroom". It allows students as well as teachers to learn in their own way. All students are capable of learning, it is just how they learn. As a first year teacher I consider myself as a student because I am learning what it takes to have my own individual classroom. I am considered as a mastery learner and I learn best by repetition, note taking, and actively participating. It took sometime for me to decide what type of learner I was and as a teacher it took some time to learn the way my students learn best.</p>
</div>Wed, 28 May 2008 21:49:32 +0000Anonymouscomment 65694 at https://www.edutopia.orgTeachers, Like Students, Learn by Doinghttps://www.edutopia.org/comment/65680#comment-65680
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>I think what is amazing for me is how many presenters do not understand this concept. I have been to a few conferences where they are talking about using a hands on approach but they are using lecture to teach that to us. I am not one of those people who can just sit and listen to someone and gain much from it. I totally understand that some times we have information that needs to be provided in a lecture format but I hope that most teachers try to limit this as much as possible.</p>
</div>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:07:02 +0000Anonymouscomment 65680 at https://www.edutopia.orgHow exciting to participatehttps://www.edutopia.org/comment/65656#comment-65656
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<div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><p>How exciting to participate in such a hands-on learning experience. I agree that the best way a teacher can teach is first by doing. Teachers as a profession are "doers". Why would we think it would be best to teach educators by practices we ourselves wouldn't use in the classroom? We wouldn't expect our students to learn from just lecture and note taking. It's about time "best practices" in teaching extended to teacher professional development.</p>
</div>Wed, 28 May 2008 02:01:00 +0000Lori W.comment 65656 at https://www.edutopia.org